HOBART: 1852 British Ackerman & Co illustrated Universal Penny Postage propaganda envelope to Hobart Town "pr Tasman" carried privately without postage paid, 'SHIPLETTER/2OC2/1852' arrival b/s & rated "4" payable by the addressee. A most unusual usage

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

LAUNCESTON: 1868 mercantile entire headed "Melbourne 9 March 1868" with Victorian Laureates 6d blue tied by largely very fine strike of the Second Allocation Barred Numeral '52' of Launceston, diamond 'SHIP-LETTER- INWARDS FREE/11MR11/1868' arrival b/s in red, minor staining along horizontal filing fold.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

LAUNCESTON: 1895 cover with very fine double-oval 'LOOSE SHIP LETTER/("2")D/TO PAY' h/s (Hosking #1425), Victoria Reading 1d orange-brown x2 tied by two overlapping strikes of 'LAUNCESTON'-in-Bars h/s, arrival b/s of NO22/95. Ex Roger Hosking. [Absent from Patrick Reid's collection of Tasmanian Instructional Handstamps. Recorded by Roger Hosking for 1895-1896 only]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

LAUNCESTON: 1895 Tatts cover to Hobart with large-part double-oval 'LOOSE SHIP LETTER/("1")D/TO PAY' h/s (Hosking #1425), Victoria 'POSTAGE' 2d tied by 'LAUNCESTON' cds of 2JY07, Commonwealth Blank Tablet Postage Due 2d tied by poor Hobart cds, filled spike-hole. Ex Roger Hosking. [Absent from Patrick Reid's collection of Tasmanian Instructional Handstamps. Recorded by Roger Hosking for 1895-1896 only: this is 11 years later] (Image1)

Estimate AU$250